一些由工厂水车驱动的织布机，依然为一些礼品店生产茶巾，但是棉花生产已经很早就转移到了国外工资更低的地方去了。

A few looms, powered by the mill's water wheel, still produce tea towels for the gift shop, but cotton production has long since moved abroad in search of low wages.

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打字机和打印机上所使用的一种带状编织品，材料为棉花、天然丝、合成纱等。

On a typewriter or a printer, a ribbon of woven material, for example, cotton, natural silk, synthetic yarn.

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我们必须说服棉花处理商要先清洗轧棉机，再处理我们的棉花。

We had to convince gins to clean their cotton gins and then process our stuff.

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Good old Eli Whitney, it's his fault we had the cotton boom and slavery grew, and you get sort of Eli Whitney to the Civil War.

伊莱·惠特尼发明的轧棉机,促使了棉花产业兴盛和奴隶需求量猛增,可以说惠特尼在某种程度上导致了内战的爆发

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They weren't very successful in growing it in huge amounts, but that short stapled cotton that eventually was the form of cotton that the cotton gin made into such a massive, marketable world product, is what made the cotton boom boom.

岛上的居民想大规模种植但没有成功,因而海岛棉,这种粗绒棉,逐渐成为了棉花产业的主流,轧棉机的发明成为了种可大量生产,且有利可图的产品,也因而棉花产业越来越兴盛

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